How to Use bankroll in a Sentence

bankroll

1 of 2 noun

• They started the business with a fairly small bankroll.
• The same can be said by building that starting bankroll.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
• As of Sept 30, the group’s bankroll was empty, according to records.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 11 Dec. 2019
• Don’t miss out on the chance to hit the ground running with an extra $200 in your starting bankroll.
  — cleveland, 28 Nov. 2022
• Caesars Sportsbook is a great way to pad out your bankroll on large and small bets.
  — Ian Firstenberg, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2022
• Aaron Judge is returning to the Bronx with a much bigger bankroll.
  — Scott Boeck, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2022
• Take advantage of their No Sweat First Bet to pad your bankroll.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 1 Jan. 2023
• But if Verifying wins, our $100 bankroll could be pretty big by the end of the day.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• And with entry costs set up for all bankrolls, everyone will be able to get in on the action.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 13 Jan. 2024
• Stick around for a few hours and your bankroll will almost certainly be gone.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 29 June 2018
• Many had been honing their skills — and building a bankroll — through online games.
  — Washington Post, 28 June 2019
• Bettors can hedge their bets by picking favorites in other games and use this game as a chance to pad the bankroll.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
• The two-day, live-bankroll tournament was held Sept. 21 and 22 in the second-floor clubhouse sports bar at Laurel.
  — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 24 Sep. 2019
• Now is a great time to sign up and build a bankroll, especially with college football and the NFL not that far away.
  — Xl Media, cleveland, 1 Aug. 2022
• Expect a big bankroll here, as the luxury matches its price tag.
  — Kimberly Wilson, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2021
• On the topic of starting and running up a poker bankroll, there is no shortage of advice out there.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2018
• So be sure to take advantage of their exclusive offer and No Sweat First Bet to build your bankroll.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 24 Dec. 2022
• However, losing a $3,000 bet will give users more chances to build their bankroll for the busy sports calendar.
  — cleveland, 3 Feb. 2023
• With so many exciting games, slots and free games on their site and app, the new offer is a great way to place your first wager and pad your bankroll at the same time.
  — Chris Ilenstine, Chicago Tribune, 16 Dec. 2022
• There’s no better way to add $250 to your bankroll for the Super Bowl than by signing up with our DraftKings promo code.
  — Catena Media, al, 2 Feb. 2023
• Progressed from loafing here and there with scant dollars in my pocket, to swaggering to and fro with a bankroll swelling my sock.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Unlike the Jolie-Pitts, not all of them have the bankroll necessary to hire a top-tier attorney like Laura Wasser.
  — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Jan. 2018
• The union is a huge political player with hefty campaign bankrolls.
  — George Skelton, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• For the next two weeks, Pope and Norman will compete for the nomination, a dynamic that Democrats hope can even out the campaigns’ bankrolls.
  — David Weigel, Washington Post, 3 May 2017
• In the high-stakes market, bankroll and risk tolerance tends to dictate where Gordon will get drafted.
  — Shawn Childs, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2019
• Chicago Tribune readers can have multiple ways to pad their bankroll ahead of MNF.
  — Doug Ziefel, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
• And in a time before helmet laws were widespread and molecular body armor was standard, only a small group had the nerve and the bankroll to mount one.
  — Jonathan Snyder, Esquire, 16 Jan. 2018
• With the Super Bowl a week away, bet365 created a way for new customers to build a bankroll before the game through a minuscule investment.
  — cleveland, 4 Feb. 2023
• Evaluating and understanding key stats can guide you to more fairways, greens and birdies in your bankroll.
  — Jay Ginsbach, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The cartel's bankroll and resources grew faster, becoming a billion-dollar empire with an army of 5,000.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 25 Nov. 2020

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bankroll

2 of 2 verb

• But Oye is building a war chest to bankroll the battle.
  — Simran Vaswani, Forbes, 16 June 2022
• Some of the proceeds from the stake sale will be used to bankroll acquisitions, Mr. Carter said.
  — Benjamin Mullin, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Seid soon bankrolled a much more successful right-wing school takeover at GMU’s law school.
  — Nina Burleigh, The New Republic, 16 May 2023
• Still, some say more money will be needed to bankroll the effort over time.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Mar. 2023
• Prosecutors say Taylor was one of the shooters and bankrolled the purchase of the firearms that were used.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• These add to the game’s entertainment while bankrolling your account.
  — Sponsored Content, The Mercury News, 17 Jan. 2024
• Every one of them could double as a travel brochure aimed at the producers bankrolling them.
  — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 14 Mar. 2023
• Liberman convinced Vogue to bankroll the New York project but never published any of the results.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 18 June 2022
• But a funny thing happened on the way to Amazon’s Prime Video service, which bankrolled the $130 million film.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• For years, Taiwan helped bankroll a fund for all 50 members of Parliament to use on projects in their districts.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 11 Aug. 2022
• Much of the conflict has been both driven and bankrolled by the country’s enormous deposits of metals such as gold, tin, and tungsten.
  — Ryan Lenora Brown, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Mar. 2023
• Qatar wanted not only to buy the team, but to establish a sports broadcaster to show its games, and to bankroll the rest of French soccer.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• The publishing house idea was mentioned and the Becks offered to bankroll the entire initiative.
  — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 19 Oct. 2022
• Someone is going to have to bankroll/backstop the company for at least a year, probably more.
  — Alissa Jubelirer, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2023
• Adidas had stopped funding Yeezy apparel, so the artist was bankrolling it himself.
  — Megan Twohey, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
• Can a company fight hard on an artist’s behalf against itself, or against the very force that helps bankroll its existence?
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2021
• These companies’ investors didn’t set out to bankroll our decadence.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2021
• The new entity was bankrolled by Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s $300 billion sovereign wealth fund.
  — Rob Toews, Forbes, 7 May 2023
• Far from slowing Russia’s growth, Mongol policies may have helped bankroll it.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
• The bubble, that surge of cash that over the past decades helped bankroll an unprecedented boom in TV drama production, appears to have burst.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2023
• Girardi bankrolled her music career as the pop singer Erika Jayne.
  — Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• One of the wealthiest men in Paraguay, Cartes became chair of the party a few years after leaving office in 2018 and has been functionally bankrolling it for the past decade.
  — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 1 May 2023
• Kitchen bankroll the Restaurant Gordon Ramsays, and the lauded flagships lend an aura that gets customers into seats across the board.
  — Gordon Hamersley, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2022
• Through the 1980s, when the territory of Yemen was still bifurcated into two nations, Riyadh bankrolled the spread of Wahhabism in the north, weakening the Houthis.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
• Construction of the new courthouse is expected to be bankrolled by bond proceeds tied to a 2022 millage extension.
  — Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• After months of bankrolling Turner’s lavish lifestyle, Burchard decided to make a surprise visit to the home on March 1.
  — ABC News, 24 Feb. 2023
• About 10 deep-pocketed investors bankroll some of the firm’s operations, and some of them make their own short bets alongside Hindenburg.
  — New York Times, 16 Aug. 2021
• And, according to Andre's close friend Andrew Russell, Andre bankrolled her dreams.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 9 Dec. 2023
• Those efforts are bankrolled by more than $1 million from Reid Hoffman, the billionaire Democratic megadonor.
  — Lisa Lerer, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2023
• In Tanya’s eyes, Belinda is a miracle worker, and Tanya initially offered to bankroll a spa for her before reneging on the deal.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024